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The Boiling Crab
Get messy with fresh, flavorful seafood served in a bag—spice it up your way!
3.4(5 reviews)
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Get messy with fresh, flavorful seafood served in a bag—spice it up your way!
The Boiling Crab is a lively seafood restaurant in Sacramento, CA, specializing in Cajun-style boils served directly on your tabletop. We offer a fun, hands-on dining experience with fresh snow crab, shrimp, crawfish, and more, customizable with your choice of spice levels and sauces. Perfect for groups and seafood lovers, our casual atmosphere encourages you to dig in, get messy, and enjoy high-quality ingredients. Come for the flavor, stay for the memorable meal!
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Fresh seafood like crab, shrimp, and crawfish boiled in your choice of signature sauces and spice levels, served in a bag for a messy, fun feast.
Tailor your meal with options like 'The Whole Sha Bang' sauce and mild to spicy heat levels to suit your taste preferences.
Enhance your boil with à la carte items including corn, potatoes, sausage, and eggs for a complete, hearty meal.
Start with delicious options like fried oysters, scallops, or fries to complement your main seafood boil.
Ideal for gatherings with ample seating, bibs, and gloves provided for a shared, interactive dining experience.
The service is fair. It was friendly and present. Definitely feel the price was fair for the amount of food. We had an order of fries which were fantastic and a pound of crawfish and shrimp with all the extras... Bomb! Definitely worth it and will sure to be back!
It was going great. Food was good. Unfortunately the drink was flat. We ordered crab legs and told them at least twice about getting utensils, their excuse was none being clean second time was after 30 minutes, still did nothing. After doing last call we ordered a drink and then drink was not brought to us. They could be better.
Be prepared for plenty of sauce and some messy eating as you enjoy the spicy delicious seafood right onto your covered tabletop. Bibs are offered and highly recommended. Be had several pounds of juicy sweet and tender snow 🦀 crabs. Deep fried scallops, fried oysters, and a pound and half of shrimp 🍤. The quality of the ingredients are quite good. Oysters, shrimp, and scallops are all very good size. The Lime wedges can squeezed and mixed onto the dry spices and offers a great acidity and balance to the seafood. Expect a la carte for many items such a separate order for corn, potatoes, eggs, and sausages which is what we did to accompany the meal. You have a choice of spice level and we order mild with the whole sha bang. It was still plenty of heat for mild. Was all yummy and pricey for a party of 4.
Wonderful first time experience! Only a twenty minute wait, easy and accessible parking. We got clams, shrimp, snow crab, blue crab, and oysters. Along with steamed rice and gumbo rice. Everything was great except for the blue crab which had some brown meat in the legs that didn’t smell too good. Great staff checked in and offered extra plastic gloves. While my friends went bare handed these were a must have for me and I really appreciated extra! Easy bring home left overs, given extra plastic bags and the boiling crab bag. We will be coming back! Thank you!
This is Sunday, my friends came in town for visit and want to try the famous boiling crab. So we stop by night time almost 6, waited about one and half hours for our table which is fine Sunday night always busy. Our server was really nice we got party of five, 4 adults and 1 one year old. We ordered all flavors shrimp total 4lbs, 2lb mussels, 1 lb clam, 4 corns and 1 order sausage and some appetizers. Long story short, 1st we got mussels and clams it’s was great only clams got so many empty shells. And then we start to get our bags shrimp, at first I tried the shrimp it tasted funny I thought is that they used cheap shrimp it’s not fresh, and with the heavy sauce can’t really tell what’s wrong with it, then I ate one that’s cooked outside and raw inside, I immediately notified our server she took that one bag back said she will get us a new bag while we work on other bags. At this point I’m just really upset, my wife is pregnant and I got one year old might have eaten not fully cooked seafood. The same time we working on other bags and I noticed every bags got some shrimps that’s not fully cooked, I called server again to notify manager. While we wait for the manager we got our new bag 1lb shrimp, this time it’s cooked, but over cooked. I’m not sure they reused the one they bought it back to cook again or what, the shrimp it’s like chewy gum way over cooked. The manager showed up did not even apologize, she just looked at table even don’t care I’m trying to show her uncooked shrimp, she said “oh, looks like you guys finished most of it like half way, so we can’t do anything at this point, I’ll give you 10% off 1 item.” You heard that right, “ONE ITEM” which is 1lb shrimp $1.6. I told her it’s not about the money, my wife is pregnant and I got one year old toddler can’t eat raw seafood they might get sick, not sure how she passed her health safety license. Of course each person grab one shrimp from the 1lb bag its like almost half way through. She just gave a nasty look, it’s like not the first time it happened she just doesn’t care. At this point I got no mood even to eat anymore also she didn’t even offer to recook my food, just ask for check be done the night. I got my bill, she even trying to charge me additional lb shrimp they took back and recooked, now shows I got billed 5lbs shrimp total. If I didn’t pay attention to my check she just charge whatever she wants. This is health issues to serve raw seafood to anyone!!!! The lady manager name is Sarina Chanthanarm, not sure it’s really her name or not, the server just gave me the business card said this is the manager, I hope she go retake her health safety test to learn how important not to serve customer uncooked food.
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